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Poet: Robert Frost
Poem: 18.
In a Disused Graveyard
Volume: New Hampshire
Year: Published/Written in 1923
Comment 13 of 13, added on November 17th, 2007 at 12:25 PM.
I believe that the robert frost poems are poems that can relate to all of the people on earth. This particular one gave me the chills when i first read it because i began to think that people come in and out of my life and i dont even realize that they are there until it is too late for either me or them. I think we have to open our eyes to be able to see what life is really about.
"The living come with grassy tread"- I think this means people come with a sort of trudging walk. People arent always excited to be alive.
"To read the gravestones on the hill"- people come to see you or people know of you and want to come meet you.
"The graveyard draws the living still, but never anymore the dead"- Some people come and go, but the ones that love you will never die.
The verses in it say and say: The ones who living come today, to read the stones and go away" People come in and go out of peoples lives and they dont even realize they are there, or if they do they dont care.
"Tomorrow, dead will come to stay" This is scary. one day someone can be in your life and the next they could be gone.
"So sure of death the marbles rhyme" Death is a non compromisable fact of life. you cant make deals with death. it doesnt work like that.
"Yet cant help marking all the time" Time is precious and when you count down all the time you waste it adds up to more time than you've actually spent doing good things.
"How no one dead will seem to come, What is it men are shrinking from?" Men are just waiting to die and are getting so depressed from it that before long they have wasted their whole lives waiting to die instead of doing something constructive.
"It would be easy to be clever, and tell the stones:Men Hate To Die. And have stopped dying now forever, i think they would believe the lie."
Evan from United States
Comment 12 of 13, added on May 8th, 2007 at 4:31 PM.
I think this poem is about people fearing death, as many of the others have stated. people come to the graveyard to read the stones and consider their own death, and where they will end up. but as far as the last line goes:
Man is basically telling the tombstone: "Men hate to die, so we have stopped dying altogether. no more headstones will join you, ever." And the tombstone believes the lie. The graveyard becomes "disused".
Tyler from United States
Comment 11 of 13, added on April 30th, 2007 at 11:31 AM.
First off, I think Jeffrey was write, Marla didnt grasp the concept of the poem at all. Its talking about how man visits graveyards for the reason to look at tombstones not to remember the people that lay beneath them. Man is scared of death, obviously, its their biggest fear. Not because of death itself but because they are scared of being forgotten. Its saying that man never realizes that a graveyard is death itself, they dont realize how those people felt and dont stop to realize that they once were. So jeffrey dont blame you for getting mad, some people are too shallow in this world.
Jeremy from United States
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I believe that the robert frost poems are poems that can relate to all of the people on earth. This particular one gave me the chills when i first read it because i began to think that people come in and out of my life and i dont even realize that they are there until it is too late for either me or them. I think we have to open our eyes to be able to see what life is really about.
"The living come with grassy tread"- I think this means people come with a sort of trudging walk. People arent always excited to be alive.
"To read the gravestones on the hill"- people come to see you or people know of you and want to come meet you.
"The graveyard draws the living still, but never anymore the dead"- Some people come and go, but the ones that love you will never die.
The verses in it say and say: The ones who living come today, to read the stones and go away" People come in and go out of peoples lives and they dont even realize they are there, or if they do they dont care.
"Tomorrow, dead will come to stay" This is scary. one day someone can be in your life and the next they could be gone.
"So sure of death the marbles rhyme" Death is a non compromisable fact of life. you cant make deals with death. it doesnt work like that.
"Yet cant help marking all the time" Time is precious and when you count down all the time you waste it adds up to more time than you've actually spent doing good things.
"How no one dead will seem to come, What is it men are shrinking from?" Men are just waiting to die and are getting so depressed from it that before long they have wasted their whole lives waiting to die instead of doing something constructive.
"It would be easy to be clever, and tell the stones:Men Hate To Die. And have stopped dying now forever, i think they would believe the lie."
Evan from United States